Patient Centered Total Quality Management Consulting

About Aerolib

Our mission is to provide Patient Centered Total Quality Management solutions to healthcare organizations. Our approach focuses on safety, quality and service to patients in the hospital, ambulatory clinics, nursing home and rehabilitation settings.

Aerolib Healthcare Solutions is a consulting firm based in Dallas, TX started by Dr. Deepak Pahuja. Dr. Pahuja is a board certified Internist and Pediatrician with extensive hospitalist experience. The firm emphasizes the importance of documentation in the patient record by all participants in the process: triage, emergency room, attending physician, consultants and nursing staff. Our decisions are based on clinical experience. We help Physicians and Case managers understand the importance of predictability of adverse clinical events and how to document them to get appropriate bedding status. We identify institutional current practices and how to develop a compliance program to prevent future audits. Our Analytics process helps healthcare institutions develop new strategies to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance, provides new skills to participating healthcare providers and information to the case management and utilization teams to develop patient centered approach to Total Quality Management. Determining Audit Risk Score using the proprietary Aerolib Analytics summary helps determine individual case features. We have seen that inadequate documentation in the History/Physical, Discharge summary and daily progress notes can increase the score significantly. There is great opportunity to rectify this problem with proper physician education and involvement. We can provide physician education on necessary documentation for the patient record.

About Dr Pahuja

Deepak is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He has worked with Erie Physicians Network at St Vincent Health Center, Erie PA. He is on the Editorial Board for The Internet Journal of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research. Dr Pahuja was the CME Director of the Erie Physicians Network Hospitalist group at St Vincent Health Center, Erie PA. Deepak is a Fellow of American College of Physicians, member of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American College of Physician Executives. Dr Pahuja is the CEO of Aerolib Healthcare Solutions and specializes in innovations in healthcare and development of new inventions. Deepak is the inventor of the ergonomic stethoscope grip, disposable stethoscope cover, stethoscope sanitizer. He has won second prize at the Erie Innovation Design contest for his Stethoscope cover design. Dr Pahuja is the recipient of the 2010- 2011 American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin “Most Distinguished Young Physician Award” for outstanding performance in patient care, research and community service. Deepak has been awarded the American College of Physicians Illinois Downstate and Pennsylvania Leadership Development Achievement Award in recognition for completion of ACP`s Leadership Seminars for Young Physicians (September 2012). Deepak was awarded the Physician Recognition Award with Commendation in 2010 by American Medical Association for the last 2 years for excellence in educational activities and exemplary effort.

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